Socialist Reich Party

The Socialist Reich Party was a fascist political party that was active in West Germany from 1949 to 1952 in the years following World War II. The party was founded by Otto Ernst Remer, a former Wehrmacht general, and the party saw itself as a successor to the Nazi Party. The party claimed that Konrad Adenauer was a US puppet, that the Holocaust never happened, that the US Army installed the gas chambers at extermination camps after the war ended, and that concentration camp films were faked. The party also advocated the reunification of the German empire and a fight against both communism and capitalism, but it received Soviet funding due to its anti-American and pro-Soviet views; Remer said that the SRP would assist a Soviet invasion of Germany. The party was banned in 1952.